by Jan Morris
Brittany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bro Vigouden (Bigouden), Brittany 1
Bruges, Belgium 1, 2, 3
Brussels, Belgium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Bucharest, Romania 1, 2, 3, 4; architecture 1, 2;
Gypsies 1, 2;
superstitions 1, 2
Buchenwald, Germany 1, 2
Budapest, Hungary 1; art 1;
Danube, 1, 2, 3;
espionage 1;
funicular railway 1;
Gypsies 1;
Habsburg era 1, 2, 3;
Jews 1;
Kaiser Wilhelm II’s visit 1;
relic of St Stephen 1;
restaurants 1, 2;
Rising (1956) 1, 2, 3;
Roman 1;
spa 1;
Turkish occupation 1
Bulgaria 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Gypsies 1, 2, 3;
and Islam 1, 2, 3, 4;
Russian influence 1, 2
Burton, Sir Richard 1
Büsingen, Switzerland 1
buskers 1
Cade, Jack 1
Cagliari, Sardinia 1
Calabria, Italy 1
Calverley, C. S. 1
Camoëns, Luis de 1, 2
canals 1, 2
Canterbury, England 1, 2
Cape St Vincent, Portugal 1
Capri, Italy 1, 2
Carl August, Duke of Weimar 1, 2, 3
Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) 1
Carlyle, Thomas 1, 2
Carmichael, Alexander; Carmina Gadelica 1
Carnac, Brittany 1, 2
Carolingian empire 1, 2
Carrington, Dorothy 1
Castile 1, 2
Catalans 1
cathedrals 1
Ceauşescu, Nicolae 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Celle, Germany 1
Celts 1, 2
Cervantes, Miguel de 1, 2, 3
Chamberlain, Neville 1, 2
Channel Islands 1, 2
Channel Tunnel 1, 2, 3
charity, Christian 1
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; throne of 1, 2
Charles, Prince of Wales 1, 2
children 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Chopin, Frédéric 1, 2, 3
Christianity: American 1; cathedrals 1;
Celtic 1;
charismatic 1;
charity 1;
death-cult 1;
decline? 1;
kindness 1;
pagan inheritance 1;
relics 1, 2;
sacred stones 1;
sects 1;
and unity of Europe 1, 2;
visions and apparitions 1;
see also individual churches and churches;
cross;
Mary, Blessed Virgin
Christmas 1, 2
churches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Churchill, Sir Winston 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; ‘Iron Curtain’ 1, 2
cinema 1, 2
cities, mercantile 1
Coimbra, Portugal 1, 2
Cold War 1, 2, 3, 4
Cologne, Germany 1, 2, 3
commerce 1, 2, 3
Communism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; collapse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and religion 1, 2, 3;
see also individual Communist countries
concentration camps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Constance, Switzerland and Germany 1, 2, 3
Constantinople 1, 2
Copenhagen, Denmark 1, 2, 3, 4
Corfu, Greece1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Corinth Canal, Greece 1, 2
Cornwall, England 1, 2
Corsica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
costume, traditional 1, 2
Crete, Greece 1, 2
crime, international 1
Crimea 1, 2
Croagh Patrick, Eire 1, 2
Croatia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
cross, sign of 1, 2, 3
Crossmaglen, Armagh, Ireland 1
crown, symbolism of 1
customs officials 1, 2, 3, 4
Cuxhaven, Germany 1
Cyprus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Czechoslovakia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Germans in 1, 2, 3, 4;
Jews 1, 2;
see also Czech Republic;
Slovakia;
and individual places
Czech Republic 1, 2, 3
Dalmatia 1, 2, 3, 4
dancing 1, 2
Danube, river 1, 2; cities along 1, 2, 3;
delta 1, 2, 3;
as frontier 1, 2, 3, 4;
-Rhine canal 1
death-cult 1
Denmark 1; ancient 1, 2;
empire 1, 2;
Faroe Islands 1;
flag 1, 2;
medieval wars 1, 2;
monarchy 1, 2;
and Nazis 1
Deny, Northern Ireland 1, 2
Dickens, Charles 1, 2, 3
Dijon, France 1, 2
dogs 1, 2, 3
Dôle, France 1, 2
dragons, Welsh 1, 2
Dresden, Germany 1, 2, 3, 4
dress, traditional 1, 2
Druids 1, 2
Dublin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
beliefs 1, 2, 3, 4
Dubrovnik, Croatia 1, 2, 3
Durrës, Albania 1, 2
Dwyfor, river 1
Easter 1, 2
Eastern Europe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Communist era1, 2;
Gypsies
1, 2;
hotels 1, 2, 3;
see also individual countries
Edinburgh, Scotland 1, 2, 3, 4
Einstein, Albert 1, 2
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Welsh 1, 2
Elba, Italy 1, 2
Elbe, river 1, 2, 3, 4
Elizabeth, Habsburg Empress 1
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain 1, 2, 3
enclaves 1, 2
England 1; American influence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
confidence 1, 2, 3;
English style 1, 2;
fashions 1;
influence 1, 2;
language 1, 2, 3;
monarchy and royal family 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
pubs 1;
transport and travel 1, 2, 3, 4;
Welsh frontier 1, 2;
wars on Continent 1;
see also Britain and individual places
English Channel 1, 2, 3
Epidauros, Greece 1, 2
Epomeo, Mount, Ischia 1
Erasmus, Desiderius 1, 2
escalator, Europe’s longest 1
Escorial, Spain 1
espionage 1, 2
Estonia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Esztergom, Hungary 1, 2, 3
ethnic minorities 1, 2, 3
Euro-city 1
European Coal and Steel Community 1, 2
European Union 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; anthem 1;
flag 1;
Parliament 1, 2, 3
Eurostar train 1
Euzkadi (Basques) 1
Everest, Mount 1, 2
executioners 1, 2
fairs, trading 1
Faroe Islands 1
Fascism 1, 2; see also Mussolini;
Nazism
Fátima, Portugal 1
Fermor,
Patrick Leigh 1, 2
Fields, Gracie 1
Filitosa, Corsica 1
fin de siècle 1
Finland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Finns abroad 1, 2;
flag 1, 2;
islands 1, 2;
and Russia 1, 2
Fisher, Admiral ‘Jacky’ 1
flags 1, 2, 3
Flecker, James Elroy 1
Florence, Italy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
food 1, 2, 3
football 1, 2
Formentor, Majorca 1, 2
fortifications 1, 2
France 1; anthem 1, 2;
arts 1, 2;
Atlantic Wall 1, 2;
church clocks 1;
countryside 1;
couture 1;
empire 1, 2;
English in 1, 2;
flag 1;
f
ood 1, 2, 3, 4;
frontiers 1, 2;
and Germany 1, 2, 3;
and Holy Roman Empire 1, 2;
influence 1, 2;
language 1;
menhirs 1, 2, 3;
military pretensions 1;
minorities 1, 2, 3;
Paris Périphérique as epitome of 1;
patriotism 1;
student protests 1, 2;
transport 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Vichy government 1, 2;
World War II 1, 2, 3, 4;
see also individual places
Franciscan order 1
Franco, Francisco 1, 2, 3, 4
Franco-Prussian War 1
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 1
Franz Josef I, Emperor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
coronation 1, 2
Frederick I, the Great, of Prussia 1
French language 1
Freud, Sigmund 1, 2, 3, 4
Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg 1
Friendship Bridge, Romania/Bulgaria 1
frontiers 1; artificial and natural 1;
Eastern Europe 1, 2;
end? 1;
in imaginaton 1, 2;
Middle Ages 1;
military 1;
officials 1, 2, 3, 4;
Roman 1;
settlements dissected by 1, 2, 3;
see also under individual countries
Fuengirola, Spain 1
funiculars 1
Galway, Ireland 1
Gamla Uppsala, Sweden 1
gateways 1, 2, 3
Gaulle, Charles de 1, 2
Geneva, Switzerland 1, 2, 3, 4
George I, King of England 1, 2
George V, King of England 1, 2
Germany 1, 2; anthems 1, 2, 3;
aristocracy 1, 2;
and Austria 1, 2, 3;
and Baltic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Büsingen enclave in Switzerland 1;
East-West division 1, 2, 3, 4;
Eastern 1, 2, 3;
empire 1;
expatriates 1, 2, 3;
food 1, 2, 3;
foreigners in 1, 2;
and France 1, 2, 3;
frontiers 1, 2, 3;
Gypsies 1, 2;
Hansa 1, 2, 3;
influence 1, 2, 3;
land-locked 1;
music 1, 2, 3;
Napoleonic kingdom 1;
navy 1, 2;
neo-paganism 1, 2;
pre-war ethos 1;
Second Reich 1, 2, 3;
Slavs in 1;
spas 1;
Third Reich 1, 2, 3;
tourists abroad 1, 2;
transport 1, 2, 3, 4;
Weimar Republic 1;
Wends 1;
World War I 1, 2, 3, 4;
World War II 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (burden of) 7, 8;
see also individual places and Hitler;
Holocaust;
Nazis
ghettos 1, 2, 3
Gibraltar 1, 2, 3, 4
Gilbert, Martin 1
Giorgione 1, 2
Glasgow, Scotland 1, 2
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gordon, R. K. 1
Gorsedd of Bards 1
Gotland, Sweden 1, 2
Granada, Spain 1, 2
Great St Bernard Pass 1, 2
Greece 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; ancient religion 1, 2;
and Cyprus 1, 2;
eastern or western? 1, 2, 3;
Greeks abroad 1, 2;
Gypsies 1, 2;
influence 1;
islands 1;
Turkish occupation 1, 2
green men 1
Grieg, Edvard 1
Gruffydd ap Cynan 1
Guernica, Spain 1
Guiseley, West Yorks 1
Gypsies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Habsburg, Prince György 1, 2 Habsburg Empire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
demise 1, 2;
Landstrasse 1, 2;
Military Frontier 1;
Parliament 1;
Trieste in 1, 2, 3
Habsburg family 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Hadrian’s Wall, England 61
Hamburg, Germany 1, 2, 3
Hanover, house of 1
Hansa, Hanseatic League 1, 2, 3
Hans Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein 1, 2
Harding, Field Marshal Sir John 1
Harris, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ 1
Hašek, Jaroslav; The Good Soldier Švejk 1, 2, 3
Hatto, Archbishop of Mainz 1
Haussmann, Baron Georges Eugène 1, 2
Haute-Savoie, France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Havel, Václav 1
Haworth, West Yorks 1
Hedeby, Germany 1
Heligoland, Germany 1, 2
Helsinki, Finland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Helvetic Confederation 1
Henry the Navigator, Prince of Portugal 1
Himmler, Heinrich 1, 2
Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and Austria 1, 2;
at Bayreuth 1;
Berlin bunker 1;
birthplace 1;
Bomb Plot 1;
and Czechoslovakia 1, 2;
on middle ages 1;
in Passau 1;
suicide 1;
and Strasbourg 1;
vision of Europe 1, 2;
in Weimar 1
Hoetger, Bernard 1
Hohenzollern family 1, 2, 3
Holocaust 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also concentration camps
Holy Roman Empire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Horatius (Roman hero) 1, 2 horses;
Lippizaner 1;
of St Mark 1, 2
hotels 1, 2, 3, 4
Hoxha, Enver 1, 2, 3
Hungary 1; aristocracy 1;
Budapest rising (1956) 1, 2, 3;
Cardinal Mindszenty 1;
crown of St Stephen 1;
and European Union 1;
expatriates 1, 2;
under Habsburgs 1, 2, 3, 4;
Nazi sympathizers 1;
Serbs 1;
and Slovakia 1, 2, 3;
Turkish occupation 1;
see also individual places
Hurtigruten (Norwegian coastal shipping) 1
hydrofoils 1, 2
Ibárurri Gómez, Dolores (‘La Pasionaria’) 1, 2
Ibsen, Henrik 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Iceland 1, 2, 3
Ionian Islands 1, 2; see also Corfu
Ireland 1; Anglo–Irish 1, 2;
Dáil 1;
English and 1, 2, 3;
flag 1;
food 1;
happiness 1;
Hill of Tara 1;
influence 1;
north-south border 1;
religion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
roads 1;
sectarianism 1, 2;
see also individual places
Irish Republican Army 1
Iron Curtain 1, 2, 3, 4
Ischia, Italy 1, 2
Islam 1, 2, 3, 4
islands 1;
see also individual islands
Italy 1; design 1, 2;
empire 1;
food 1, 2;
foreigners in 1, 2, 3, 4;
Gypsies 1, 2;
Habsburg monarchs 1, 2;
influence 1, 2, 3, 4;
Jews 1, 2;
migrants abroad 1;
Napoleonic kingdom 1;
and Trieste 1, 2;
World War I 1;
World War II 1, 2, 3;
see also individual places
Jaracheff, Christo 1
Jean Bart (French battleship) 1, 2, 3
Jesuits 1, 2
Jews 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also Holocaust
John of Nepomuk, St 1, 2
John Paul II, Pope 1, 2
Josephine, Empress of France 1, 2
Joyce, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Trieste 1, 2, 3
Jurmala, Latvia 1
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Kafka, Franz 1, 2, 3
Kaliningrad, Russia (Königsberg) 1, 2, 3
Karaim (Karaites) 1
Karl IV, Emperor 1, 2
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (Carlsbad) 1
Kaunas, Lithuania 1, 2
Kiel Canal 1, 2
Kipling, Rudyard 1
Kirkenes, Norway 1
kite-flying 1
Kraków, Poland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; cathedral 1, 2
Kronstadt (Braşov, Romania) 1
Kross, Jaan 1, 2
Krujë, Albania 1
Kryži Kalnas, Lithuania 1
Land’s End, England 1
Lapps 1
Latvia 1, 2, 3
Lausanne, Switzerland 1, 2
Law, George, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1
Leipzig, Germany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Leningrad, Russia (St Petersburg) 1
Leonardo da Vinci 1, 2
Leopold II, Emperor 1
Liechtenstein 1, 2, 3, 4
limes 1, 2
lingua franca 1, 2
Linz, Austria 1, 2
Lippizaner horses 1
Lisbon, Portugal 1, 2, 3
Lithuania 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Jews 1, 2, 3
Llanymynech, Wales/England border 1
Llivia (Spanish enclave in France) 1
Lombardy Pass, Alps 1
London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; character of people 1, 2;
clubs 1;
Hansa 1, 2;
Heathrow airport 1, 2;
Houses of Parliament 1, 2, 3;
Jews 1;
London Stone 1, 2;
Mosque 1;
Rothschilds 1, 2;
Westminster Abbey 1
Longford, 7th Earl of 1
Lourdes, France 1, 2
Lübeck, Germany 1, 2, 3
Lucerne, Lake, Switzerland 1, 2
Lúcia, Sister, of Fátima 1, 2, 3
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria 1, 2, 3
Lüneburg, Germany 1, 2
lurs (musical instruments) 1
Luther, Martin 1, 2
Luxembourg 1, 2
Lyon, France 1, 2, 3
Maastricht, Netherlands 1, 2
McCaul, Padraig 1
Madara, Bulgaria 1